'The Butler' tops 'One Direction' at box office

FILE - This undated file film image provided by The Weinstein Company shows Oprah Winfrey as Gloria Gaines, left, and Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines in a scene from "Lee Daniels' The Butler." Despite some spectacular flops, Hollywood?s summer concluded with a record $4.7 billion in box-office revenue. The summer movie season closed out on Labor Day weekend as the boy band concert film ?One Direction: This Is Us? took in an estimated $18 million from Friday to Monday for Sony Pictures, according to studio estimates Monday, Sept. 2, 2013. That wasn?t enough to unseat ?Lee Daniels? The Butler,? which stayed on top with $20 million.

"Lee Daniels' The Butler" was served another first-place finish over the Labor Day weekend.

The film starring Forest Whitaker as a veteran White House butler earned $20.2 million in the top spot at the box office for the third weekend in a row, bringing the Weinstein Co. historical drama's domestic haul to $79.5 million.

Sony's boy-band music documentary "One Direction: This Is Us" opened in second place with $18.5 million.

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Monday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com, are: